Sunday, February 08, 2015

Postcrossing
is a project that allows its members to send and receive postcards from all
over the world. The project has originated under the influence of bookcrossing
– the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by
others, who then do likewise.
The aim of postcrossing is to enable people to receive postcards from all over
the world, for free. The exchange of postcards rests on a common database of
all the project members and on а random address principle intended to minimize the difference between
the postcards sent and received by each member. Postcrossing uses an indirect
swap so that a member sends a postcard to another postcrosser and
receives a postcard back from a random member.

The project is extremely popular in Europe, the USA, China and Russia
The postage stamp depicts an envelope with the inscription “I love
postcrossing” against symbols of world cities in the background.

FDCs with cancellation (Moscow, Novosibirsk, Tyumen) have been prepared for the
release.